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On April 29, Burns Library and the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies host a roundtable discussion at Boston College examining the “functions of sacred objects in three very different Jesuit missions from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries – England, China, and Northeastern America.”   “Material Cultures of Devotion in Early Modern Jesuit Missions” features presentations by […]

Selected proceedings from the 2018 International Symposium on Jesuit Studies have been published in a new, bilingual volume in Brill’s Jesuit Studies book series. Francisco Suárez (1548–1617): Jesuits and the Complexities of Modernity consists of 19 essays over five categories: Metaphysics; Religion, Law, Society; Political Theories; Psychology; and Legacy. The full table of contents appear below.   The

A call for papers is now available for the Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference, to be held at Georgetown University on June 3-6, 2020.   The event marks two decades, according to organizers, “since the first Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education Conference, held at Santa Clara University in 2000, when Fr. Peter-Hans

The Renaissance Society of America annual conference, held in Toronto from March 17-19, features more than 30 presentations related to the field of Jesuit Studies. More information about the conference and the RSA can be found at: http://www.rsa.org/   Information about the Jesuit Studies-related presentations can be found in the beta version of the Jesuit Online Bibliography. Available in

On February 22, le Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Avignon (LMA) et la Fédération de Recherche AGORANTIC d’Avignon Université hosts a day-long symposium on Athanasius Kircher, S.J. (1602-1680).   The symposium features presentations by mathematicians and historians, all considering the mathematics behind sundials. The event takes place in a building in which Kircher, noted German Jesuit scholar and polymath,

The Jesuit Studies Cafés for Spring 2019 have been announced, featuring scholars from Africa, Europe, and North America. Topics range from Jesuits in Qina China to Robert Persons, SJ, and from a new online bibliography to questioning if the Jesuits were the last medieval order.   The Jesuit Studies Cafés are informal discussions hosted by

Robert Jackson, a specialist in Latin American history, has published a new volume on the Jesuit missions among the Guaraní in the 17th and 18th centuries.   Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guaraní in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries examines the important role these missions played in the “disputed Rio

Claudio Ferlan’s one-volume history of the Jesuits–first published in Italian as I gesuiti–has been translated into Portuguese.   Os Jesuítas is a 208-page summary of the Society of Jesus, from Ignatius of Loyola and the founding of the religious order to the election of Pope Francis.   More information about the original publication is available on the

The 2019 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, taking place in Chicago, January 3-6, features panels, papers, and a poster on Jesuit Studies.   Information about those relevant presentations appears below. To learn more about the AHA meeting, please visit: https://www.historians.org/annual-meeting     Saturday, January 5, 2019: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM Panel: Jesuit Imagination, Strategy, and

James Kelly, Sweeting Research Fellow in the History of Catholicism at Durham University, and Hannah Thomas, Special Collections Manager and Research Fellow at the Bar Convent in York, have edited a new monograph, Jesuit Intellectual and Physical Exchange between England and Mainland Europe, c. 1580-1789: ‘The World is our House?’   Part of the Jesuit Studies